I have setup a few cron jobs, but they are not firing. I know this because a) I am not getting any confirmation to the root mailbox (which I thought was standard with cron), and b) I've configured my scripts to append a datestamp and action completed to a log file. I'm looking for ideas on why this isn't working...
I've used "crontab -e" to create my crontab file. The file consists of the following: 30 19 * * * /root/cron/clam_update * 01 * * * /root/cron/sysbackup 50 19 * * * /root/cron/webstats each one of these scripts has permissions of 755, and run fine on their own. Each one of them will first ping my external firewall IP address to establish my internet connection (long standing, but separate issue), run their specific tasks, then update the log with a statement like echo "task completed" >> /root/cron.log. I'm suspecting the "crontab -e" bit is not quite right, but don't know enough (yet) about cron to be sure. Any tips or suggestions are appreciated. Thanks. Shawn
